Athletics

The 1st group of athletes selected to represent the Isle of Wight at next summer’s Island Games in Guernsey has been announced. There are a few positions in the team still left to be filled over the next few months...

7 Wight Tri members took part in the Challenging Events Thruxton Duathlons on Sunday: qualifying events for the GB team for the 2023 AG World Sprint and Standard Distance Triathlons in Ibiza. The men taking part had dreadful conditions in...

Lucy Doorly Wight Tri member Lucy Doorly completed the London marathon in a personal best time to break the 4-hour hour barrier on Sunday (2nd October). Ms Doorly had previously trained up to 19 miles for the 2020 race, and...

Wight Tri Member, Kevin Read took on the Outlaw X Half Ironman event held at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire,  raising over £800 for Isle of Wight Defibrillators last weekend. Due to the cold lake temperatures, the 1900m swim was shortened...

Island resident and Wight Tri member, Rob Johnson, competed in the gruelling SwimRun World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, last month. This was a race he had to qualify for through the global SwimRun series with his SwimRun partner Chris Goodfellow,...

Gary Marshall 105 runners set off from the Isle of Wight Community Club in Cowes for the 66th Isle of Wight Marathon on an overcast, showery Sunday morning (2nd October). Luckily, conditions soon improved with the rain lifting, to be...

Liz Dunlop and Richard File Veteran 65-year-old Liz Dunlop took part in the European AG Aquathlon Championships and the European AG Middle Distance Triathlon Championships, winning bronze in the 1st event and gold in the 2nd. The European AG Aquathlon...

Charis Jones 3 members of Wight Tri - Jessica Newall, Gabriella Hewitt and Charis Jones - crossed the Solent to take on the 70.3 Ironman Weymouth on Sunday (18th September). This was Jessica’s 3rd half ironman distance, but it was...

Wight Tri member Ant Mildenhall flew across the Atlantic to take on the Ironman Madison Wisconsin on 11th September. Ant - coached by Simon Pilcher and Darren Cole at Vectis Academy - showed huge determination to stay in the endurance...

Wight Tri members travelled the short distance across the Solent to take part in the Challenging Events Bournemouth Sprint and Standard Triathlons. With an early morning start, the men’s wave was off first, with Trevor McAlastair and Dan Shortman taking...